You won’t find any bougie cafés, cosy pubs, or charming bookshops at this abandoned village, just relentless Welsh rain, ...

Lost slate mining village on rugged hilltops in Snowdonia dubbed Britain's 'Machu Picchu' bids for World Heritage status Gwynedd Council chiefs launched bid to have mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog ...

The proposed heritage railway station at Beddgelert has been approved on appeal after initial rejection by national park ...

The Ffestiniog Railway Company appealed to the Planning and Environment Decision Wales over a decision by the Eryri National Park Authority ...

The Ffestiniog Railway, which cuts through the countryside in Wales, is Europe's No.1 scenic train line. It tops a new ranking by Which? of Europe's '10 best scenic railways', generated from a ...

Cwmorthin is a Victorian-era slate quarry above the grey tinged village of Tanygrisau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. It has a long and complex history beginning in the early 1800s, with heavy ...

A community group's plan to reopen a village's last pub is a step closer. Grwp Pengwern Cymunedol said volunteers were already coming forward with exciting ideas for the Pengwern in Llan Ffestiniog, ...

Capel Celyn, Gwynedd was a village in the Tryweryn Valley, between Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog, a small rural community where Welsh was the dominant language. In 1965 it was flooded to create a ...

The A470 runs right through the village which lies just south of the famous slate town of Blaneau Ffestiniog. From the pub head up the main road, passing the village school and turn right before ...

A COMMUNITY has agreed to buy its own village pub – and now needs £185,000 to keep it going. Villagers in Llan Ffestiniog were devastated when the Pengwern Arms Hotel shut last February ...

A community group's plan to reopen a village's last pub is a step closer. Grwp Pengwern Cymunedol said volunteers were already coming forward with exciting ideas for the Pengwern in Llan ...